With these new platforms, application integration with SAP Business Suite must change character.

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Question: Does it mean there are two version of SAP business suite, one for HANA and one for other databases.

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Samsung SDS is also teaming with SAP to bring SAP Business Suite software and Samsung Mobile Sales Force Automation to businesses.

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Enterprises running SAP Business Suite can now leverage the on-demand, pay as you go AWS platform to support thousands of concurrent users in production without making costly capital expenditures for their underlying infrastructure.

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In the short to medium term the SAP architecture for its ERP and other SAP Business Suite Applications will look like this diagram, which I adapted from one Poonen drew for me on a whiteboard.

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The great challenge is to enable their customers to innovate quickly at the speed of business change, embracing new platforms, without unduly disrupting the systems of record (such as SAP Business Suite) that quite literally hold many organizations together.

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If they can get SAP, Oracle, and all the other business application vendors to play along and integrate their technologies into their suite, end users could be treated to powerful surprises.

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